Derik Stenerson first came to Microsoft on an internship as a Test Engineer on Microsoft Mail. After graduating, he joined Microsoft full time in the email group and worked in various roles on email and scheduling products, including Schedule+ and Exchange.
His passion for calendaring and…

Scott Prevost is General Manager and Director of Product for Powerset, the company whose semantic search engine was recently acquired by Microsoft. In this interview he describes the history of Powerset's natural language engine, and explains how it works
as part of a hybrid approach to…

Kristin Tolle is the Senior Research Program Manager for Biomedical Computing for External Research in Microsoft Research. Projects run the gamut, she says, from "bench to bedside". In this interview she
discusses two major biomedical initiatives:
Cell Phone as a Platform for Health…

Roger Barga, a principal architect with Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative, is leading the development of Trident, a "workflow workbench" for science. In its first incarnation, the tool will enable oceanographers to automate the management and analysis
of vast quantities of…

Before joining Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments,
Lewis Shepherd spent four years at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he helped usher in a
new era of collaboration.
In this interview, he discusses how the Institute's small team of seven is exploring the nooks…

Maurice Franklin is a 12-year Microsoft veteran whose career has focused on performance engineering and server scalability. He's also passionate about the concept of a space elevator, and recently organized and hosted a conference held on that topic at the
Microsoft Conference Center.
In this…

Ted Semon, a retired software engineer, chronicles the efforts to develop a space elevator on the
Space Elevator Blog, and volunteers for
The Spaceward Foundation which administers
competitions to develop several of the core technologies that will be needed to build the elevator.
Ted…

Tony Hey, VP for the External Research Division within Microsoft Research, leads the company's efforts to build external partnerships in key areas of scientific research, education, and computing. He's been a physicist, a computer scientist, and dean of
engineering, and for five years ran the…

Jonathan Fay is principal developer of the WorldWide Telescope. In this interview he explains how the project has yielded not only a breakthrough software product, but also a reference model for the acquisition, transformation, and visualization of astronomical
data. You'll learn not only how…

The WorldWide Telescope was first shown to the public
at TED 2008, in a joint presentation by project leader Curtis Wong, manager of Next Media Research for Microsoft, and Roy Gould, a science educator with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
In this interview they discuss how --…